Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-06
SPORTING.
BASE BALL.

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sey and Kerins, of the LOuisvilles, for hi:
California trip next winter.
1t may be Kansas City, and it may bt
indianapolis. But the former looks as i
she would cross the line first.
Owing to the canceling of dates by the
Utica club the Alleghenies have open date:
April =, 4, D and 6.
A little strengthening in certain posi-
tiOns will make the Athletics II of the
strongest clubs in the Association.
Since Kelly has joined issues with the
Bostons ne has tumbled to the fact that
RadbOurn will be the best pitcher in the
League under the new rules.
The st. Louis Browns stockholders are
not altogether pleased with the dividend
of2i per cent. which has been declared.
The "world's championship ought Ia dc
something better than that.
Bob" of Allegheny, makes the follow
ing prediction OF the standing of the League
clubs at the end of the season: Allegheny
or Philadelphia, in first place, followed by
Detroit, New York, Boston, Washington,
Chicago, indianapolis or Kansas City.
1t is now over q quarter of Il century
since the game of base ball became pOpu-
larizcd Us the game of all games for Amer
lean youth; and within that period it has
SD extended itself IN its sphere of opera
tionS that it is now the permanently eS'
tablished field game of America.
According to Mr.. Won der Abe, Car
ruthcrs' alleged salary of ~, 500 Is SIMPLY
newspaper talk. No member Of the
Browns receives any such amount, and
what is more, the genial Chris says they
won't receive it. Noplayer, in his opinion,
is worth such Il sum.
An exchange makes the assertion that
''COmiskey, Welch, Latham and NicOl lay
way over Mike Kelly as "a base runner. v
In the eyes OF this Association radical,
there are no ball players on the face of the
earth To be compared To those of the st.
Louis Browns and the young blood OF
the Cincinnati team.
For the other League clubs, says an eX-
change, indianapolis would lac very adj
%yantageOus; but for indianapolis il will he
simply Il waste of money, aS no matter
what city is made the eighth member OF
the League, they will have Ia make room
for the st. Louis Browns in 1888.
Steve TOole is not tickled to death over
the new rules, but, like Morris, he is per
fectly satisfied to take his chances with
the rest. lie thinks all pitchers will be
more or less handicapped under them, and
that sixteen or seventeen strike outs IN i
game will be Il thing Of the past.
At the COlOred League meeting in Balti-
more on the 18th OF the month, the follow
ing delegates will be present: Charles w.
Hines, OF Louisville; Horace Magec, OF
Louisville, will represent Cincinnati; Mar
shall Thompson, Boston; Benjamin Butler
and Ambrose Davis, New York; Gilbert
A. Ball, X. G. Still and Ii. Close, Phila-
delphia.
FOgarty says that mo pitcher living can
10 what the new rules call for; in fact, he
won't be able To do any more than throw
the ball at the bat. 1t seems to me that
instead of lettering the same they have
put it back where it was ten years ago.
The committee, in its effort to help the
umpire, has robbed the game of all its at
t~raCtive features" When such players rs
FOgarty, Morris, Brown and Carroll con-
denim the new rules, it does look as ifthey
were a little OIL color.
The Kelly deal proves one thing; That
PLAYERS records are not the best things in
the world to go on. No one will dispute
the fact that the only Mike is one of the
greatest OF ball players. He is probably
the only man in the profession who could
command the figure Boston paid for him.
yet he has not the best record by any
means. This goes a great way toward
showing that Mike is Il club player; quite
a hardy arti le to have around. Although
Dunlap is unqueStiOnably a brilliant play
er, he would be once again rs valuable to 4
club were he 10 pay less attention to his
individual record.
Evidently Mr.. Burnham's tongue is
twisted. lie doesn't want TO talk money.
Dollars and cents are too vulgar for him
to discuss. Perhaps he is in base ball for
glory! Trash! The reason he doesn't talk
money is because he can't get it. He THi
keep Denny, GlaSScOck and Boyle to have
a good nine, hut he might have n good nine
without any Of them, and he might part
with them if u suitable price We're offered.
Doesn't this mean, "All right, MeSsrs.
Splding and Day, if you let indianapolis
in We will sell you GlaSScOck and Denny
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